You gotta love the Scots!-my people
The Scots have taken over the laughs and parties!
The Scots are incredibly passionate fitba (football) fans—so passionate, in fact, that I just had to feature their love for the game in both of my novels, The Skye in June and City of Redemption.
This wee bit from "The Skye in June" about fitba, as the Scots call football, and the Americans, soccer. It also had a personal bit of history about myself, but I won't go into that now.
The MacDonald family finally arrived in their new country in the city of San Francisco, California.
The men began talking about football. Sandy told Jimmy that in America, football was played differently and that Americans called Scottish football soccer. For a Glaswegian man, soccer was a passionate subject.
Arguments between the two rival teams, the Protestant Rangers and the Catholic Celtics, could easily lead to fistfights.
Sandy said there were many football teams in the States and that religion wasn’t associated with them. He went on to say that American football was reserved for “pansies” who needed gear. “They’re afraid they’ll get hurt, poor, wee lassies,” he added, laughing.
Jimmy told Sandy the story about when Peter’s wife, Janet, gave birth. The doctor, who was also a Rangers player, had rushed from his game to deliver the baby without taking time to change from his soccer uniform. When he arrived at Janet’s bedside, she screamed at him to get away from her. She didn’t want any Protestant touching her body, let alone her baby!
With tears of laughter streaming down his face, Sandy choked out between laughs, “Och, away with you. You’re full of it, man!’
“I am not! I’m telling you the truth,” Jimmy could hardly talk for laughing. “They had to call in a Catholic doctor. But I never did find out if he was a Celtic fan.”
Listen to the intro, Chapter 1 - meet the mother, Cathy MacDonald. Read by June Ahern
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